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The US Congressional Budget Office has admitted that it was hacked. CBO spokesperson Caitlin Emma told TechCrunch on Friday that the agency is investigating the breach and has “identified the security incident, took immediate action to contain it, and implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency’s systems going forward.” The CBO is a nonpartisan agency that provides economic analysis and cost estimates to members of Congress during the federal budget writing process, including after a bill is approved at the committee level in both the House and Senate. On Thursday, the Washington Post, which first…
China-affiliated actors are believed to have engaged in cyberattacks targeting U.S. nonprofit organizations with the goal of establishing long-term sustainability as part of a broader campaign targeting U.S. organizations related to or engaged in policy issues. The organization “actively seeks to influence U.S. government policy on international issues,” according to a report by Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black teams. The attackers were able to gain access to the network for several weeks in April 2025. The first sign of activity occurred on April 5, 2025 and included CVE-2022-26134 (Atlassian), CVE-2021-44228 (Apache Log4j), CVE-2017-9805 (Apache Struts), CVE-2017-17562 We have detected a…
It’s that time of year again. Many people finished work and dawn started early. On Sunday, November 2, residents of the 48 states and the Navajo Nation moved their clocks back one hour, ending daylight saving time (DST). In Europe, DST ended on Sunday, October 26th.Although the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) favors establishing a permanent standard time, many would like to keep DST year-round. A Live Science poll published on October 28 asked readers what they thought about the controversial issue of whether to abolish daylight saving time.Live Science’s largest poll to date had 3,280 readers respond by…
On Friday, Amazon announced the debut of Amazon Bazaar, a new low-cost shopping destination for Asia, Africa, and Latin America, available separately from the main Amazon shopping app. At the bazaar, retailers say most items can be purchased for less than $10, with some items costing as little as $2. This product selection is currently available on Android and iOS, but will also be available in its own app available in Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Nigeria. Amazon says more markets will have access to the app in…
Parts of San Rafael, a city just north of San Francisco, are sinking about half an inch a year. That may not sound like a big deal, but it means some areas, such as the canal district bordering the bay, have sunk by three feet, increasing the risk of flooding from rising sea levels. It’s not just San Rafael. Cities around the world are under threat from rising sea levels, with 300 million people expected to be at risk of regular flooding by 2050. The cost of constructing seawalls to hold back water could exceed $400 billion in the United…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced late Thursday that he will sue online gaming platform Roblox over child safety concerns, accusing the company of “misleading parents about the dangers of its platform.” Paxton claimed in a statement that Roblox is choosing to prioritize “pixel pedophiles” and profits over the safety of children, calling the platform a “hotbed for predators.” “We cannot allow platforms like Roblox to continue to serve as a digital playground for predators,” Paxton said. “Roblox must do more to protect children from the sick, twisted freaks hiding behind screens. Companies that enable child abuse will face the…
Currently, the maximum distance that two quantum computers can be connected via fiber cable is several kilometers. This means that the quantum computers at the University of Chicago’s South Side campus and the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago would be too far away to communicate with each other, even if there were fiber cables running between them. But new advances from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering could theoretically extend that maximum distance to 2,000 km (1,243 miles). This new approach allows the same UChicago quantum computer that previously couldn’t reach Willis Tower to connect and communicate…
Scientists in Norway have witnessed the birth of a baby orca in the wild for the first time, revealed in photos.Researchers were observing a pod of killer whales (Orcinus orca) off the coast of Skjarvoj in the Arctic Circle during a whale watching trip when the water around them suddenly turned bright red with blood.”We were floating calmly and watching the feeding, and suddenly there was blood splattered everywhere near the boat,” Kristina Barotai, a photographer and videographer for Orca Channel, a boat tour company that also collects data on marine mammals in Norwegian waters, wrote in a Nov. 2…
Jetson ONE – Jetson Air Let the game begin! – YouTube watch on Since the first-ever Jetsons Air Games event, which organizer The Jetsons described as “Formula One in the Sky,” flying car racing is no longer the stuff of science fiction.The event featured pilots piloting four Jetson One vehicles, dubbed “racing cars in the sky” by the manufacturer, each competing to cross the finish line. The personal plane, which bears a slight resemblance to the flying cars seen in science fiction movies, is designed for one person and currently does not require a pilot’s license to fly in the…
November 7, 2025Ravi LakshmananSupply chain attacks/malware A set of nine malicious NuGet packages were identified that can disrupt industrial control systems by dropping time-delayed payloads and interfering with database operations. According to software supply chain security firm Socket, the packages were published by a user named “shanhai666” in 2023 and 2024 and are designed to execute malicious code after specific trigger dates in August 2027 and November 2028. The package was downloaded a total of 9,488 times. Security researcher Kush Pandya said, “The most dangerous package, Sharp7Extend, targets industrial PLCs with a dual interference mechanism of immediate random process termination…